Car parks are not designed for them, too many people end up paving front gardens because they struggle to reverse into or out of garages
My FIL has a Seat Ibiza - tiny - and a standard-sized garage. That car won’t fit in his garage (at least with any room at all to open the doors).
You don't need a car in a city like London, let alone an suv
The thing is, though, that cars enable you to travel far and wide. Plenty of people who live and work in London travel far outside the city regularly.
You don't need them in the countryside either, that's just nonsense. I've always lived in the countryside and we have always had a small car.
What do you mean by ‘countryside’, though? Are you talking about the bits between the charming Cotswold villages or the rugged, remote, mountainous roads in Sutherland?
If it were me I would call an SUV a large vehicle for driving licence purposes and if you want to drive one, take your driving test in one. The thought of having to take your driving test again or have a normal sized car I expect would reduce the number of SUVs on the road.
That’s just not logical at all, though. A standard car licence allows you to drive a laden Luton van – and if you passed before 1997, you could also tow a laden trailer the weight of another Luton behind the first one. How would you tell people they can drive a ‘standard’ car or a ‘Luton train’ on the same licence, but not something that’s slightly bigger than a family estate – just because you personally don’t like the stereotype of people you believe drive them all?
They are ugly cars Ginuwine. My mum always had them while I was growing up (still does) and I swore I would never have one.
Each to their own, but I’ve never got the hatred for MPVs. They're never intended to be sports convertibles. I don’t have a car of my own at all atm, as my estate died just before Christmas and we won’t have the money for a replacement one for a few months, so are sharing the remaining (old but still going) hatchback; but I’ve looked into it all in great detail and decided that, for our longer-term needs, an MPV is by far the best choice – something very versatile that drives like a car but has the space of a small van. I’m not a petrolhead, though – I don’t see cars as something beautiful to behold: to me, they’re just a tool.
They are just a practical choice. There is actually only a few inches difference in the width of any car, regardless of length and height, it’s the shape and styling that offer the versatility of space. Try shoe- horning a teenager, 2 car seats, a large wheelchair and everything else into a smaller differently designed car. The extra height is better for people with disabilities, better vision makes it safer, usually 3 distinct seats in the back with a flat foot area in the rear. I don’t see why someone should judge or sneer when they don’t know the reasons why someone chooses some..🤷🏻♀
I completely agree, apart from, to be fair, your better vision is only because it’s bigger than most cars and thus comes at the expense of the people in the hatchback right behind you!
I really don't understand why people who live and work in a large town or city would want one. Surely a smaller car would be easier to park, for a start?
Have you heard of weekends and holidays…. 
We have one, the other car is a much smaller family car. We use it for towing the caravan- the caravan which means we don’t fly abroad for holidays but instead stay (mainly) in the U.K., using local shops and services. The weight of the van means that we need a car weighing in at about 2000kg.
Our caravan isn’t as big as yours, and we’re heading down the MPV route, but we’re basically the same. We haven’t flown anywhere for 23 years. A lot of people are jumping on the bandwagon that ‘SUV’ = ‘brand new Q7s or similar’, and therefore clearly only a status symbol; but one of the main reasons we got our caravan is because we can’t otherwise afford holidays – in the UK or abroad – because we’re (presumably) of too low financial ‘status’. Running a bigger, heavier (bought 8+ years old) car with which we can tow the caravan is within our budget, but otherwise, we’d have no holidays at all (disabilities preclude camping).